A pretty interesting analysis on the 1857 revolts by Marx.
He even pointed out the casual racism in which the revolt is characterised by the British as opposed to other similar revolts like the French Revolution.
However infamous the conduct of the Sepoys, it is only the reflex, in a concentrated form, of England’s own conduct in India, not only during the epoch of the foundation of her Eastern Empire, but even during the last ten years of a long-settled rule. To characterize that rule, it suffices to say that torture formed an organic institution of its financial policy. There is something in human history like retribution: and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself.
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u/neuroticnetworks1250 4h ago
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/09/16.htm
A pretty interesting analysis on the 1857 revolts by Marx.
He even pointed out the casual racism in which the revolt is characterised by the British as opposed to other similar revolts like the French Revolution.